Radracer_S
Getting the Wheeling Fever
Reged: 09/28/04
Posts: 40
Loc: Bay Area, CA
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I love the way she purrs now. Very sexy but a few things did upset me with their porduct.
1. the 5/8 elbow fitting I had to drill only to find out that one side was 3/4 so bak to home depot again.
2. in their catalog they state that the intake was reduced to $185 when I payed $239 plus shipping. What's up with that?
3. they should have more pics of each step cuz it took a long time for to decipher out their technial coding.
4. another thing that pissed me off was that I had to drill the 5/8 sorry 3/4 hole when their other products had it drilled already.
Another toyota member said that k&n filter would have been a better choice since it was lighter than downey's. I only got it cuz it was chrome.
My next decision is whether to buy their headers since everyone here praises them for it. I probably won't buy it from them directly.
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Power is Nuttin without control!!!!
1984 Nissan Silvia (D-spec) My Love
1989 Toyota V6 4x4 My Mistress
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I bought a Toyota MAS adapater with a cone filter off Ebay for $9.95 and made my own bracket to bolt it to the inner fender. I put a short hose with an old style V8 air cleaner breather for the AIR supply. Cheap and works good.
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OOP'S
Roll Me Over
Reged: 04/14/00
Posts: 4230
Loc: Roseville, CA, Gateway to the ...
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The worst things about those type of air systems:
1. Open element, suck water in very easy!!!!
2. Element is in the engine bay sucking in hot engine bay air-bad for performance
3. K-N filters suck, get a pre-filter sock for them!
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David Fritzsche
1990 Ex-Cab V-6,5-speed, with a few mods
04.5 CTD Dodge 2500 Ram--Tow Rig
Roseville, CA
"Serenity through Sobriety"
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Red_Chili
Toyota Section Staffer
Reged: 08/24/01
Posts: 5986
Loc: Littleton, CO
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The worst things about those type of air systems:
1. Open element, suck water in very easy!!!!
2. Element is in the engine bay sucking in hot engine bay air-bad for performance
3. K-N filters suck, get a pre-filter sock for them!
Doing my motor swap, I figure I'm probably stuck with the K&N style intake tube arrangement. But:
1. I plan on creating a sort of plastic air box to prevent the dreaded H2O suck, with some sort of labyrinth cold air feed. A snorkel or something like it comes to mind.
2. The cold air feed should solve this. Very important!
3. I will definitely use a sock. I found fine grit in my intake, post-filter, when I briefly used a K&N filter in the stock airbox (!!! not even open air!!!) on my last truck, and it immediately went in the dumpster. I had similar experiences with dirt bikes. K&Ns without precleaner socks have no business on an off-road truck IMHO. Or even a streeter. YMMV.
Personally, I'd prefer a UNI-style foam filter. Could probably find a generic, largish size that would work at the dirt bike parts place. There is also water-cleanup filter oil at the same place that works spiffy in my Honda. Veeeery tacky stuff, catches everything. Washes down the drain, biodegradable.
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-Bill
'87 4Runner w/ '96 5VZ-FE, 'Red Chili II'
'97 Taco XtraCab 3RZ-FE, 'BlackBean'
TLCA # 13257, Rising Sun 4x4 Club Land Use Coordinator
"He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell
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Roll Me Over
Reged: 04/14/00
Posts: 4230
Loc: Roseville, CA, Gateway to the ...
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On one of the Diesel sites I am on there is a intake setup that uses Uni-Filter. If the flter is big enough for a 5.9 diesel it would be more then big enough for a 22r or 3.0!! Uni was the only filter I used on my DB's!!!! 
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David Fritzsche
1990 Ex-Cab V-6,5-speed, with a few mods
04.5 CTD Dodge 2500 Ram--Tow Rig
Roseville, CA
"Serenity through Sobriety"
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Red_Chili
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Reged: 08/24/01
Posts: 5986
Loc: Littleton, CO
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I've never seen any grit get past the K&N filter arrangement I have, and I take her off road most weekends...
Fair enough, quite possible there are other variables in play, but my experience was with both a street motorcycle (my wife's BMW R65LS with an R100 motor, fun scoot), a dualsport motorcycle (my BMW R80GS, long gone), and the truck. So I'm done with K&N.
The bikes did breathe better enough to take a bump in the main jet, but when I found the fine grit, those filters came off quicker than a Ducati will get you a speeding ticket.
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-Bill
'87 4Runner w/ '96 5VZ-FE, 'Red Chili II'
'97 Taco XtraCab 3RZ-FE, 'BlackBean'
TLCA # 13257, Rising Sun 4x4 Club Land Use Coordinator
"He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell
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Seldom_Seen
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Reged: 10/23/03
Posts: 116
Loc: N39 32.872 W104 58.755
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Got to agree with thief. Lots-O-Dusty trails ths summer and nothing got by my K-n-N
Jake.
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